OVERVIEW

The saw process toolpath selection always starts with a vertes (point) to define the start X & Y. In addition to the start ONGAA CAM expects one or more additional selection to define a direction AND a depth. Basically, Start Here, go along here and this deep.

In this example, the dot represents the start point (Start Here), the top line provides the direction and end point ( Along here) and the lower line provides the depth (this deep).

When the final model no longer has continuous edges which can be selected as in this example, adding any addition edges or point will extend the cut to include the extra selections.

As with all ONGAA CAM defined processes, all WoodWOP options are available. This includes groove width and %tool overlap (% of tool width used for each new pass.

OVERVIEW

With ONGAA CAM drilling processes can be defined in a wide variety of ways. This section will cover all available drill process selection options.

SINGLE EDGE

To define a single drill hole simply the the upper edge of the hole. ONGAA CAM will use the edge to define the X & Y location and the diameter for the dill process. In addition, ONGAA CAM will search for the bottom of the cylinder.

Once the edge is selected, both Speed and Feed Mode can be selected as in WoodWOP.

Using the single edge selection method, ONGAA CAM will always default to ‘Drill to depth mode’. If ‘Drill through is required it can be set in the additional options section.

TWO EDGES

When a drill hole is intersected by another machining operation, ONGAA CAM would … Read the rest

OVERVIEW

Of all the machining processes in ONGAA CAM, Pockets have the largest number of ways to select geometry. This is primarily due to the way WoodWOP requires pockets to be defined. WW requires a length, a width, an angle of rotation, a depth, an X & Y coordinate to locate the centre of the pocket and a radius for corner rounding.

ONGAA CAM can acquire this information by one of the following selection:

selecting just the bottom of a pocket

selecting edges for length, width, depth and the top face

selecting edges for corner radius, length, width, depth and the top face

selecting upper and lower edges of a round pocket and the top face

selecting a sketch, an edge for depth and a top face

selecting a top face an edge for depth and the ‘all pockets on face option’

IN SOLIDWORKS

Getting started with ONGAA CAM is straight forward and easy to learn. In this page you will have all the information to get started programming in no time. Details about individual processes like Pockets and Routing and how to take advantage of the time saving features can be found in the process specific tutorial pages.

STARTING ONGAA CAM

ONGAA CAM is an ‘AddIn’ to SOLIDWORKS and becomes available when a PART or ASSEMBLY is open.

With a PART open, both the ‘Command Manager’ bar

and the toolbar become available.

Most icons represent the familiar WoodWOP processes and greyed-out icons are not active (unavailable).

GETTING STARTED

To open the programming interface, click the ‘Workpiece’ icon. This will open the Process List allowing access to add more processes as well as viewing or changing the details of existing processes. If no previous process definitions (MPR) exist you will … Read the rest

From dreaming up the parts to parts coming off the CNC table, the entire manufacturing process can be summed up in the expression “Dream to Machine”.

Many good applications on the market today claim to meet the needs of the manufacturers but, strengths and weaknesses aside, the real challenge is to determine ‘which type of manufacturers’ needs they meet.

Being able to afford the machine and the dedicated personnel to program it once made CNC machining of wood products the domain of large manufacturers only. The cost for design time and personnel could be easily covered by 100,000+ units produced.

Production lines and production runs were set well in advance giving large manufactures enough time to ‘re-program’ if needed.

Whether the CNC is from HOMAG or FANUC (etc.), small to medium sized manufacturers can now afford them though the size of the production run is … Read the rest

ONGAA CAM – Basic for Biesseworks or bSolid with the Nesting option have been released. ONGAA CAM allows you to program your Biesse machine from Solidworks directly. Geometry (X,Y,Z values) are selected by edges, vertices and faces. By using ONGAA CAM your programs all become parametric – changes the model and a NEW BPP/CIX program is generated in one click. Nest entire assemblies efficiently from Solidworks with both optimization and automatic sorting of parts based on material type and thickness.… Read the rest

Attaining this goal is not only important to us but to our customers as well. As a SOLIDWORKS Solution Partner, we have access to technical resources directly from Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. which shortens the turn around time for both Version Verification and defect resolution.

The whole team at ONG Solutions is proud of this achievement and is already planning the path to the next certification level.

A recent time study conducted at Windowcraft Industries has show that using Solidworks and ONGAA CAM has produced time savings of 62% in programming and 46% in designing over the traditional AutoCAD and WoodWOP method.

The study was conducted as an overall evaluation of a multi phase process improvement initiative launched 4 years earlier and which has had many phases.

In addition to the significant time saving, the report also sited other benefits:

Implementation of ONGAA CAM has allowed Windowcraft to essentially eliminate the need for dedicated WoodWOP programmer skills. Instead, the application of machining processes to the Solidworks model is accomplished by the Solidworks modeler at the time of design. Without the need to learn a new program interface and the ease of applying machining processes within ONGAA CAM, the learning curve for our draftsman was extremely short.

ONGAA CAM – Basic for Biesse and the Nesting Option have been releases!

With ONGAA CAM basic for Biesse you can now program your Biesse CNC machine directly from SOLIDWORKS in a single/simple 3D environment. Supported functions are Drilling (vertical and horizontal), Routing (vertical and horizontal), Pockets (rectangular and polygons) and Sawing.

ONGAA CAM offers many time saving features such as ‘All hole on face’ drill selections which automatically expands a single ONGAA CAM process into individual drill processes in BiesseWorks.

Using the power of SOLIDWORKS for modelling provides additional business solutions because this also effective makes all programs parametric. This is because the programming steps are stored with knowledge of the model. As the model changes the programming steps are generated with all new geometry.

With ONGAA CAM and SOLIDWORKS you really can ‘Design it once’ and ‘manufacture it in 1000 different sizes’.